She/Her
A longtime (and sometimes successful) herder of chickens and children, Emma is a second-year graduate student at the Nicholas School studying forestry and ecosystem science & conservation. She comes to Durham from the Blue Ridge Mountains around Asheville, NC after spending the last decade farming, working at a community garden to pizza cafe, teaching in environmental education settings, and organizing grassroots conservation projects at a variety of non-profits. She is delighted to have the soil of the Piedmont under her fingernails and is looking forward to engaging with the vibrant web of relationships at DCF. She is particularly interested in rural working lands economies, thoughtful management that overlaps agriculture and conservation, and community health. Also a trained birth doula, she always enjoys being in the forest, growing food, cooking food, sharing food, dancing of all kinds, bird-themed dress-up parties, and early mornings.